Aram's Choice by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, illustrated by Muriel Wood

From the back of the book:
Aram is like all the boys exiled in Greece. Survivors of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, they can never return home. Aram learns that he is one of a group of boys who will start a new life in a country called Canada, where there is no war, plenty to eat, and trees covered in gold. But first he must get there. Aram is about to embark on a long journey. Based on the story of Kevork Kevorkian, one of the original Georgetown Boys - a group of Armenian orphans brought to Georgetown, Ontario, in 1923.

New Beginning is a series of historical chapter books for newly independent readers. Every title is well researched, illustrated in full colour throughout, and accompanied by a bibliography, index, and glossary.

The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

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Twelve-year-old Sade's journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt military government in Nigeria. When Sade's mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth. Her father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned, passed from foster home to foster home. They try to contact their uncle but he is missing. Then they learn that their father has escaped to London to find them - but he will be sent back to Nigeria, unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family.